The Staché

Okay!  So I know what you're probably thinking... high school??  Wasn't that a while ago?!

Well, yes.. and as you guys can probably tell, I suck at this whole blogging thing..

I am going to try to keep posting though (even if months pass in between each post.)

Hopefully one day I'll just become inspired to uphold a blog, but until then, sparse posting now and then will have to do!

So!  Without further adieu, here is the last painting that I had complete for my AP Studio class.

I haven't touched oil paints since.. as much as it pains me to admit.  I really miss the medium and hope that some day I'll have time for them. 

This last piece really shows how much progress I made throughout my senior year.. I never like my work, so of course I have nothing really to say about it.. but here it is.

THE LAST PIECE IN MY CONCENTRATION

LIKE WHAT IS THIS

The time spent creating this body of work went by way too quickly!

Look for a future post about the concentration as a whole!
I really want to reflect on how this process changed me as an artist, but I'm seriously pressed for time right now!

Acrylic and Oil paint on stretched canvas.

I think that this is a little bigger than 16"x20"?

Acrylic and oil paint on stretched canvas.

11"x14" 

Definitely one of my favorite pieces (oh my gosh, I sort of like something that I made??).
Still sort of bothered by some aspects, but I think that if I tried to fix parts, I would end up making this piece worse!

Acrylic and oil paint on stretched canvas.

11"x14"

Yet another piece that I'm not a fan of.. 

I think during this process I hit a rough couple of weeks where my inspiration was low and I wasn't too motivated to work.
I may work back into this one eventually, but for now it will be left alone.

AHHHHH!!!!
I'm sorry for my absence; college has consumed every second of my life, and I haven't had any time to update my blog!
I'm going to try to get back to updating every now and then!

While I sort out my life, here is piece seven from my senior concentration!

This may be one of my least favorite.. it's quite sad...

I really am not a fan of this one.  I feel like the idea was a hit, where the execution was a miss..

Acrylic and oil paint on stretched canvas.

11"x14"

So, I was doing good with posting every day... for about 4 days... then failed!  

I don't know if it's lack of motivation, fear of saying the wrong thing, or whatever, but I have to get back to keeping up with this lifeless blog!

This is the first piece I actually had kind of liked (big accomplishment mentally) but then again... I felt I could do a lot better.  Piece 5.

Acrylic and oil paint on stretched canvas.

11"x14"

So at this point I was a third way through my senior concentration.  I was continuing to develop my theme/ideas, and was progressing rather well.  Looking back on this piece, I'm extremely unhappy.  I see so many anatomically wrong features, but I'm just really not feeling like they're worth fixing.  So this is piece four.

Acrylic and Oil paint on stretched canvas.

16" x 20"

This is the third piece of my concentration.  At this point I had developed a method for my paintings.  I would start with the pattern by using acrylic paints.  After the acrylic pattern dried, I would move on to doing the portrait in oil paints.  My portraiture was getting a weeee bit better, but yeah, I was just in the beginnings of my journey.

Acrylic and Oil paint on stretched canvas.

20" x 16".

Yes.. as I promised.. this is part two of my senior concentration.. 

Yes, it makes me want to cry.

Yes, it's complete crap.

But hey, we all start somewhere right?

Oil and Acrylic Paints on Stretched Canvas.

I think it's a 14" x 11" canvas.

The first piece of my concentration.. wasn't in love with it back in.. September?  

I honestly can say that my hate for it has grown.

Pretty sure that this piece is 12" x 32".

Oil paint on canvas boards.

Womp.

Womp.

Ashamed of it.. but hey, it was my second or third time using oil paints.

Tomorrow I'll post piece 2/12.. it is considerably worse :')